October 11, 1862

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Features

Ships' Windlasses, Capstans and Anchor Gearing

Notes on Naval and Military Affairs

Constructing Water Cisterns for Houses in Cities

The Way to Keep Milk

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

Sorghum and Imphee Culture

Paper and Bread from the Husks and Stalks of Indian Corn

Patent Medicines

Rebbeck and Davies's Lamp Burner

A Good Demand for Machinery

The Cotton Famine--Jute and Other Substitutes for Cotton

Nature's Guide in Taking Food

Inventors in New Orleans Thawing Out

Death of a Patent Office Examiner

Continued Progress of American Inventions in Europe

Valuable Receipts

Progress of Our Iron Clads--Foreign Armor Frigates

Miscellaneous Summary

On the Management of Telegraphs

Recent Foreign Inventions

Patent Claims

Issued from the United States Patent Office

Recent American Inventions

To Our Readers

Patents for Seventeen Years

Appleton's New American Cyclopedia

Brown's Lamp Chimney

Departments

Departments

Correspondence

Notes and Queries

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